Critics Choice Awards co-sign the Globe winners
Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 11:21PM by Nathaniel R
Anne Hathaway presents Joaquin Phoenix with Best Actor
We didn't have a budget for a quick trip to Los Angeles this weekend for the Critics Choice Awards but if you watched from home, what did you think? As per usual the movie awards went to the status quo with all but one of the directly parallel categories going to the recent Globe winners. The only difference was Dolemite is My Name winning Best Comedy but the Globe winner, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood wasn't nominated in that category since the CCMAs strangely don't make a distinction between drama and comedy... but then also have a comedy category. It's all very confusing. Most of the other prizes, most of which they give out off-air, went to expected Oscar frontrunners. The strangest outcome, though, was surely a tie in Best Director (Parasite/1917) with neither of those films taking Best Picture (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)...
The TV awards were a teensy bit more volatile, possibly because they take place after both the Globes and the Emmys so there's actually nothing to "predict". Instead they took a little from one and a little from the other and then ventured out on their own a bit (Toni Collette for Unbelievable? YES PLEASE). And yes your host here (tis I, Nathaniel) is cynical about the voting despite being a member (of the movie side of things -- it's two different branches within one organization, though you can join both if you want. We know we don't watch enough TV to make a fair ballot on that side, so we haven't). It's been fairly clear over the years that for reasons we've never quite understood this organization (and sadly lots of smaller critics organizations as well) appear to be more interested in signing on or commenting on Oscar narratives rather than just doing their own thing. And there's really no point in anybody handing out awards if they're only reflections or predictions of another award. Develop your own voice or shut up, we say! But anyway the list of winners is after the jump in full...
Renee winsMOVIE AWARDS
Best Picture Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Director [TIE] Bong Joon Ho, Parasite and Sam Mendes, 1917
Best Actress Renée Zellweger, Judy
Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Best Supporting Actress Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Young Actor Roman Griffin Davis, Jojo Rabbit
Best Acting Ensemble The Irishman
Best Original Screenplay Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Adapted Screenplay Little Women
Best Cinematography 1917
Best Production Design Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Editing 1917
Best Costume Design Dolemite is My Name
Best Hair and Makeup Bombshell
Best Visual Effects Avengers Endgame
Best Animated Feature Toy Story 4
Best Action Movie Avengers Endgame
Best Comedy Dolemite is My Name
Best SciFi or Horror Movie Us
Best Foreign Language Film Parasite
Best Song [TIE] "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from Rocketman and "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" from Wild Rose
Best Score Joker
TV AWARDS
Fleabag reigns again
Best Drama Series Succession
Best Actor Drama Jeremy Strong, Succession
Best Actress Drama Regina King, Watchmen
Best Supporting Actor Drama Billy Crudup The Morning Show
Best Supporting Actress Drama Jean Smart Watchmen
Jeremy Strong wins for Succession. What an exceptional performance.Best Comedy Series Fleabag
Best Actor Comedy Bill Hader, Barry
Best Actress Comedy Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag
Best Supporting Actor Comedy Andrew Scott, Fleabag
Best Supporting Actress Comedy Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Best Limited Series When They See Us
Best TV Movie El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Best Actor Limited or TV Movie Jharrel Jerome, When They See Us
Best Actress Limited or TV Movie Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon
Best Supporting Actor, Limited or TV Movie Stellan Skarsgard, Chernobyl
Best Supporting Actress, Limited or TV Movie Toni Collette, Unbelievable
Best Animated Series Bojack Horseman
Best Talk Show [TIE] The Late Late Show with James Corden and Late Night with Seth Meyers
Best Comedy Special Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons
Reader Comments (18)
In fairness, until they turn The Film Bitch Awards into a televised ceremony, all awards shows will end up short.
What arkaan said, Can’t wait for Your film bitch awards
Shame on all of these award bodies for being this lazy!
Arkaan -- that's incredibly sweet of you to say. But how woudl we stage the "best sex scene" presentation? would the "diva of the year" award be a runway walk-off?
Yeah, makes no sense that consensus critical favorites Nyong'o and Driver would lose here, or that the relatively less enthusiastically reviewed "Once Upon a Time..." would come out ahead of the far more beloved "Parasite." They definitely didn't vote with their hearts.
The TV awards are SO refreshing
Andrew Scott, Toni, Jeremy, Billy, you can tell people have watched the shows and are not responding to campaigns blindly.
And now, film. How am I going to sleep tonight!??!
Love Fleabag but GAH DAMN just let O'Hara have at least ONE televised Best Actress speech. I swear, everyone will be living in regret. REGRET!
Seriously, how the movie critics unamimously prasied as not only the best film of the year but one of the BEST FILMS OF THE DECADE not win the 'critics choice'. I know they're far more mainstream than the NYFCC/LAFCA/NSFC but still. And then Mendes (?!?!?) ties with Joon-ho. What. Is. Happening. At least Phoenix won over Driver.
The most unexpected win shld b Adapted Screenplay. I thot The Irishman wld easily take this. Guess the luv for the film is waning fast. 14 noms w juz one conso prize in Best Ensemble.
On the other hand, Yah for Greta!! 😁 Go get tt WGA n Oscars!! 😁
I tink the tie in Best Director is the Critics Choice o being doubly sure they will get the correct Oscar winner. Had Bong n not Mendes won the GG, CC wld've follow to a T!! 😂
Trivia: Since they hav a Best Comedy cat, y remove Best Comedy Acting cat?? They did give out those last yr n Colman n Bales won.
I've followed awards season long enough to know that the Critics Choice is a must-skip television event. I wish Hollywood wouldn't feed the beast by attending shows like this.
Maybe the sort of folks that venture into professional critic careers actually aren’t as special or esoteric as a whole and share an absurd amount of overlapping taste?
”Develop your own voice or shut up, we say!” You say but you don’t do. You’ll survive without this group membership and we would all avoid the same pious paragraph your write when the nominations and winners are announced. Apply to a critics group you respect if belonging or community of a critics group is what you seek. The definition of insanity... (Also in before the trite shield of “Purity politics” is invoked. Print it on your coffee mug and spare us. Avoiding actions toward living closer your beliefs because the results aren’t tailor made for you or as cushy isn’t sticking it in the face of “Purity Politics”)
The Tarantino movie seems to be the consensus movie and I can't feel any joy.
The good taste in TV, the tackiness in movies. I will never understand.
Baumbach losing all the screenplay awards to Tarantino. I can't deal with it. I just can't.
I already hate the Oscar supporting acting nominations.
JESUS CHRIST NO JENNIFER LOPEZ?????!?!??!?!?!? I knew it and I'm still pissed.
The T -- you clearly dont understand how screeners work. And how necessary they are to doing the job. But yes, it is boring to complain about the same thing each year. I'll seek to find fresh angles next season if we're still around.
I'm indifferent to OUATIH, but I really hope it doesn't win BP with Mendes winning a second Best Director trophy. Tarantino deserves to be on that list of Best Director winners.
Anne Hathaway was the first presenter and she literally said that the winner of best actor goes on to win the Oscar 95 percent of the time. They began the show by patting themselves on the back for being an Oscar predictor! I turned off my television before Joaquin Phoenix predictably won. Now the Oscar noms have been announced, and I feel deflated all over again.